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Giant Steps Forward-My Ideal School

The main aim of the project is to bring youngsters and teachers in Europe together to share ideas and experiences, to discover each other’s cultures and make new friends. All the partners in the project aim to compare and contrast what the schools in other European countries have done so far and have been planning to do about the development of their schools in the near future and to find out what can be done furthermore to have the 21st century school. Today's students live in a world that is extremely fast-paced, constantly changing, increasingly culturally diverse, technologically driven, and media-saturated. That’s because we aim to define ‘School’ ‘Teacher’ ‘Learner’ ‘Curriculum’ and ‘Education’ that should be structured to meet the needs of students in this 21st century. We are really sure that we will find the answers to these questions: ‘What will school look like exactly in the near future? How should we assess students? How can we purchase resources? How can we acquire and utilize the new technologies? How can we provide parent involvement with school development?’…etc. To find the answers to the questions above each participating school is going to make a variety of surveys and new precautions are going to be taken according to the results of the surveys.

Surveys

The coordinator school prepared a number of surveys on the topic of the project and all partner institutions applied school development surveys in different sub-titles.70 students, all teachers, administrators and 70 parents at each school took each survey. After the results of the surveys were taken, the comments on each survey were written and sent to the associated partners and the results were evaluated in the Comenius meetings.

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SIT-School Improvement Teams

According to the results of the surveys taken a number of school development teams were set up in each school to improve the education. These teams are as follows: Education and Training Improvement Team, Technology Development Team, Guidance & Counseling Improvement Team, Qualified Communication Team, School Financial Budget Planning Team, School Building Construction & Rehabilitation Team and Social Activities Team.

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Videos and pps shows of partner schools

The students in the Comenius Teams in all partner institutions made a variety of videos and power point slide shows to describe themselves, their schools & cities & countries and the steps of the project. Besides the students involved in the project interviewed with students on their school and ideal school and made a film of the so-called interviews.

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Audible & visual end products

The students involved in the project exchanged the DVDs of their favourite songs. Milli Piyango Anatolian High School, the coordinating school organized two karaoke contest in the school and the students who came the first, second and the third were awarded by the school. The video of the contests were recorded as well.

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Written products

Students exchanged their own masterpieces such as Christmas cards, calendars and compositions on the celebration of Christmas and the following topics related to the project: 'My Ideal School, My Dream School, If I were a principal'. Moreover, the students who attended the meetings abroad wrote their impressions about the visit. The students from the coordinating school wrote a story book whose plot is about youngsters. The coordinating teachers wrote a report of each survey.

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Website

The English version of the official website of school was designed and updated. www.mpal.k.12.tr/eng Another website which was designed only for the Comenius project was constructed as well. www.mpalinternational.com All the related info about the project can be found on the so-called websites.

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Exhibitions

A project corner at school in order to exhibit the work done and the progress of the project was prepared. The pictures taken during the project were exhibited on a specially designed noticeboard for the Comenius project. Besides, the brochures, booklets and maps brought from the partner countries and photos taken during the meetings abroad, the compositions and impressions written by ss, the calendars and the Comenius project brochures made by the ss were also put on this noticeboard regularly

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Special organizations

Activities for socio economically disadvantaged pupils -cinema, theatre and a day trip to sports activity centres such as ice skating rink & bowling alley-. Were also organized. Besides, we launched a campaign at school and made a donation to our sister school in the suburb and visited the so-called sister school and provided their basic needs –clothing, food and other goods. Moreover, we organised a Comenius Day in the school garden.

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Printed books

The books and booklets about the following topics were prepared and printed by the students involved in the project. E-book, photo-book, hard cover book, Important Dates in Turkiye, Natioanal Yout Festival in Turkiye, My Mini Dictionary-3 languages, Let's Learn Turkish, a magazine on Bursaspor, a teenage magazine, Types of Turkish Music, My Turkish Book, English-Turkish phrase book and the Turkish Cuisine.

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Cooperations

We cooperated with the educational and math department at the local university. We visited these departments to get informed. The consultant at school gave seminars about bad habits of the youngsters such as smoking, not studying and doing homework, playing truant ... etc. We also visited the Manager of the Educational Dept. and the Manager of the Project Dept in the city a few times and gave them related information about our project. We were also visited and asked for detailed data.

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Meetings abroad

We held a number of meetings abroad to evaluate the ongoing project and debating the subtitles of the project. The teachers and the students visiting the partner school were all given certificates and attended lessons to observe the curriculum.

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Facebook page

One of the students from the Turkish Comenius Team prepared a facebook page to meet all the students from partner institutions and to announce the projectactivities.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=73957486272

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Sister School Project & Student Exchange Programme

We decided to start the SEP programme with our partner schools in summer.The ss involved in the project had the opportunity to meet different cultures and by comparing them to their own, they recognized similarities&differences.Living with a host family,even if for a very short time, helped them to be part of Europe,not isolated citizens.As the students observed the courses in partner schools,they compared their own curriculum with the others’.Teachers plan to have online lesson through the Net

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Visits to historical places, museums&sightseeing tours

The visit to historical places, museums and sightseeing tours in the partner countries was useful in terms of exchanging historical information and understanding similarities and differences of each culture.

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Visiting Bursaspor Sports Centre and Preparing a Magazine

A group of students visited Bursaspor Centre and they interviewed the footballers there. They were the same students who made a magazine about the famous Bursaspor, which came the first in the premier league this year.

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Comenius Day

A project corner at school in order to exhibit the work done and the progress of the project was prepared. The pictures taken during the project term were exhibited on a specially designed noticeboard for the Comenius project.The students in the Comenius team introduced the activities in the project to those who like to get more info about our project all day long.

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Presentation of our School

In our first meeting with our partners one student of the team prepared a PowerPoint presentation of our School.
We consider it a useful product as it gives a full and comprehensive idea of how our center is organized and all possibilities and facilities available to Spanish students or any students who may be interested in joining our educational community any time in their student life.

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Interviews with Spanish Students

To find out how our own students from the Centre would improve their school we interviewed five of them from thedifferent educational levels we have, so that they could give us their view of what the weaknesses and strengths of our Center were.
We asked them to give their ideas for improvement as we thought it was a starting point to learn first hand what our students thought.
We subtitled them so they could be followed by our partners.

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DVD about the City of Valencia

Students of the Comenius team recorded a DVD to present their city to their Comenius partners.
It was a hard task whose outcome was very rewarding because when they came to visit for the first time it was possible to present the city who they later visited.
Music and English subtitles were added.
It is a useful product which has already been used in other international exchanges with our School.

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Film made by the Students after the 2nd Meeting

After the 2nd meeting in Valencia Spanish students decided to create a kind of film with images and music as a summary of the experiences of all students during theur visit.
When presented in the following meeting as a coodinator I must admit that I was very pleased to see how the seeds of friendship and conviviality had already begun to grow in our project.

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Questionnaires Results (1)

Although more surveys were conducted and analyzed by the three institutions, the results of parents, students and teachers seem very significant and illustrative of the opinion that these three estates have of our school.
All these results were shown and discussed in a Teachers' Meeting so that all members of the Schoolknew and had access to them, and thus to the main objective of our project: Improving our school.

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Students' Impressions after the 3rd Meeting (1)

We think that the 3rd meeting in Turkey was very important in the project.
The fact of living in a different culture was undoubtedly rich and somewhat challenging for everyone.
So we decided to dedicate two products to it, the first downloadable so you can access it easily and in the following product we will include other impression from other sutudents.

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Students' impressions after the 3rd Meeting (2)

In this product we include the impressions of 3 of the other students(Celia , Jorge and Julian ) who visited Turkey with the project.
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B7nttY3xGtA6MDIzYWRiODEtY2ZkZS00NDhjLTlkZTItYzNlMzc0NzA1OTA1&hl=es
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B7nttY3xGtA6NTBiMGU1N2UtNjk4MS00NDc5LWI4Y2UtZjliNWU4NGQ5YTdk&hl=es

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Poster of the 3rd Meeting

Example of a poster of the several that we placed in our center after each meeting, so that the entire education community could participate in our project.
All material on the poster was facilitated by the Comenius team member students.

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My Mini-dictionary

One of the products that we like the most is this mini-dictionaryEnglish- Turkish-Italian-Spanish made by the three partners which contain a large number of very useful expressions and vocabulary for students in the three countries involved.
We had them printed in the last meeting and they were really a very useful tool for linguistic integration.

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Poster of the 5th Meeting

Here we have the last poster we prepared and displayed in our center as a souvenir of our last meeting.
Not only did we put this material in view of the Community , but all those other products that we considered of interest and that might involve the entire center.

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Video by all the Students in the Project

As a summary of the whole project all students belonging to the Comenius team recorded a video in English subtitled in English to express what had meant for them to take part in this project.
Their analysis is very interesting and we can't forget the effort they made to express themselves in English.
One after another had their moment, to say helloand wave goodbye to the rest of their Italian and Turkish fellows.

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CD as a summary of the Project

CD with the most important activities we have done altogether.
For example the educational and physical description of each School, the opinions of all members from the different teams Comenius, or a detailed comparative analysis of the results of every survey we conducted.
This CD includes many other activities conducted at the same time by the students in the three schools, always focusing on their views so as to gather ideas to improve our Schools.

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Surveys

The coordinator school prepared a number of surveys on the topic of the project and all partner institutions applied school development surveys in different sub-titles.70 students, all teachers, administrators and 70 parents at each school took each survey. After the results of the surveys were taken, the comments on each survey were written and sent to the associated partners and the results were evaluated in the Comenius meetings.

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Videos and pps shows

The students in the Comenius Team made a variety of videos and power point slide shows to describe themselves, their school & city & country. Besides the students involved in the project interviewed other students on their ideal school and made a film of the so-called interviews.

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Written products

Students exchanged their own masterpieces such as Christmas cards, calendars and compositions on the celebration of Christmas and the following topics related to the project: 'My Ideal School, My Dream School, If I were a principal'. Moreover, the students who attended the meetings abroad wrote their impressions about the visit. The coordinating teachers wrote a report of each survey.

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Exhibition

A board at school in order to exhibit the work done and the progress of the project was prepared. The most significant pictures taken during the project were exhibited there as well as the brochures and maps brought from the partner countries , the compositions and impressions written by ss, the calendars and so on.

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Meetings abroad

We held a number of 5 meetings (3 abroad and 2 in Italy) to evaluate the ongoing project and debating the subtitles of the project. The teachers and the students taking part to the visits were all given certificates and attended lessons to observe the curriculum.

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GSF book

At the end of the two years' project we've produced a spiral book which contains most of the work done: students' reports and impressions, survey results, teachers' impressions, lessons at school and so on.

Libro fotografico "GSF"

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Students, Teachers

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Image set

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To be ordered to i4pelle@virgilio.it

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